Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent Harvard graduates heard about the summer Bogey festival and drove in from New York to see The Maltese Falcon last night. "It's just not the same," one remarked sadly. "Maybe I'm just getting...
...this elegant little piece of nature literature, Author Robert Murphy (The Pond, The Peregrine Falcon) describes the life of one golden eagle from the day she leaves the nest in Colorado to the day she sinks her beak into the poisoned carcass of a ewe. Only two years intervene, but in that limited lifetime she accomplishes almost everything the species was designed to do. In describing what she does, Author Murphy, a man who can think like a scientist and write like a bird, manages to produce both a fascinating tale and a veritable encyclopedia of the eagle...
...Looking Glass War, le Carré (3) 4. Hotel, Hailey (5) 5. The Ambassador, West (6) 6. The Green Berets, Moore (4) 7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7) 8. Night of Camp David, Knebel (8) 9. Herzog, Bellow (10) 10. The Flight of the Falcon, Du Maurier (9) NONFICTION 1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (1) 2. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre...
...occasional yodel. As the sun goes down, people move indoors, and High Camp begins to resemble a cross between a sophisticated coffeehouse and a stylish supper club. At 7 p.m., Gushing kicks off the evening's entertainment with an oldtime movie, ranging from the ragged but worthy (Maltese Falcon) to the strictly high camp (Tarzan...
...trends will be to even more luxury options (example: a push-button system that enables the driver to set his car to a given speed and cruise without touching the accelerator), more powerful engines, longer bodies, less chrome. One of the major changes will occur in Ford's Falcon, which has borrowed liberally from the successful Mustang, with a short rear deck and a long hood; like most other Ford models, the Falcon has also adopted the hop-up, or gently swelling rear-fender curve, pioneered by General Motors...